The best Joseph Cawthorn’s drama movies

Joseph Cawthorn

Joseph Cawthorn

29/03/1868- 21/01/1949
Today we present the best Joseph Cawthorn’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Joseph Cawthorn’s movies.
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The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld
6.6/10
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

Blondie Johnson

Blondie Johnson
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/02/1933
  • Character: Manager
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 24/05/1940
  • Character: Leopold Damrosch
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Housewife

Housewife
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/08/1934
  • Character: Krueger (as Joe Cawthorne)
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 29/03/1935
  • Character: Herr 'Schumie' Schuman
A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with a mercenary.

Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark
6.4/10
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.

The Human Side

The Human Side
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1934
  • Character: Fritz Speigal
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

Men Are Such Fools

Men Are Such Fools
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/11/1932
  • Character: Werner (as Joseph Cawthorne)
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.

Lazy River

Lazy River
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/03/1934
  • Character: Mr. Julius Ambrose
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

Speakeasy

Speakeasy
5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 08/03/1929
  • Character: Yokel
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.

Broken Dreams

Broken Dreams
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/10/1933
  • Character: Pop
Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue his medical studies. Morley returns to his hometown six years later, now a successful doctor and engaged to be married to a beautiful socialite. He also feels differently about the boy and attempts to gain custody from his aunt and uncle.

So Ends Our Night

So Ends Our Night
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/02/1941
  • Character: Leopold Potzloch
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

Harmony Lane

Harmony Lane
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/10/1935
  • Character: Professor Henry Kleber
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.

They Call It Sin

They Call It Sin
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/11/1932
  • Character: Mr. Hollister
An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big-city and left fending for herself.

Street Girl

Street Girl
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/08/1929
  • Character: Keppel - Cafe Owner
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

Two Girls Wanted

Two Girls Wanted
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/09/1927
  • Character: Philip Hancock
Lost film.

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